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🗓️ 20 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | And now on to part two with Brother Stephen Lund, Doctrine in Covenants 93. |
| 0:07.4 | One of my heroes is Elder Larry Echo Hock, who is the General Authority 70. |
| 0:13.1 | He grew up on a reservation and somehow out of pure talent work ends up at BYU as a football player |
| 0:19.8 | and as a student and ends up going to law school, ends up being the Attorney General, the state of Idaho work ends up at BYU as a football player and as a student and ends up going to law school, |
| 0:22.5 | ends up being the Attorney General of the state of Idaho, ends up being, I think, the undersecretary |
| 0:27.6 | of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 60,000 employees working for him. I was chatting with him one |
| 0:34.3 | day and I asked you, how do you do that? How do you manage an organization |
| 0:37.8 | like that and find time for your family and for scholarship and all the other things you do? |
| 0:43.8 | And he said, oh, that comes down to one thing I do when I got to BYU, solve the workload and |
| 0:50.6 | saw the football. With everything I was doing there, I knew I didn't have the capacity |
| 0:54.3 | to do it. I made a promise that I was going to avail myself of the help of heaven. I'm not saying |
| 1:01.6 | this in his words. This is my recollection of his impression. He said, I decided that I was going to |
| 1:07.7 | read 10 pages of the Book of Mormon every day to get centered and to get strengthened. |
| 1:12.6 | Read 10 pages or until I felt the spirit, whichever came last. |
| 1:17.6 | Having done that, he said, it empowered me to do all the other things that I needed to do. |
| 1:23.6 | Then he said something very much like this. |
| 1:25.6 | I don't have it written down, but he said, I found that on any given day, |
| 1:29.7 | the most important thing that I did in that day |
| 1:32.6 | was that, the reading of the scriptures. |
| 1:36.6 | Having done that, everything else was secondary, |
| 1:39.2 | but having done that important thing, |
| 1:41.4 | then I had the help of heaven to do the stuff that was beyond me |
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